Important Questions (5 & 6)

September 11, 2009, 11:25 pm by dc-agape.

Even though I have not finished the posts on Creationism in the Classroom, today is an important anniversary.  I in memory of the event that took place 8 years ago, I want to ask two very important questions.  Christians worship a supreme being that is known for compassion, justice, and love.  The purpose of the questions was to determine if our commenter was True to the Christ-like qualities expected from Christians, but should be equally valid for any TrueChristian™.

Here was the first question I missed.  How does a True Christians respond to the War in Iraq?  What about the illegal incarceration of the “terrorists” at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp?

We now know that our former President Bush lead us into a war with Iraq that has not ended.  We know that it was poorly planned with no plan for the recovery of civilization in the country.  We also now know that there were no weapons of mass destruction, they did not have ties to Al-Qaeda, nor did the Iraq nation have the capacity to create biological weapons.  We were not even over-throwing a dictator: we have not done anything about any other dictator in the world: Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Cameroon, Tunisia, Sudan, Chad, Rwanda, the Gambia, Central African Republic, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, the Maldives, Myanmar, North Korea, and even Fiji.  Why did the government of a “Christian” US choose Iraq?  Why, in fact, were the excuses make (lies) and why did we preemptively strike at an enemy?  We know that the Christians of the 1^st Century would not and certainly did not do this.  When the Romans destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem the Christians ran for the hills (pdf format).

The biggest problem with the War in Iraq (which has not been “Won”) is that it was split the US army into a two front battle: one in Iraq (with no logical reason to start that war- religious or security) and Afghanistan – where the terrorist are actually located that destroyed the Twin Towers in New York City, NY.  During our wasted time in Iraq we have lost support from almost every nation in the world…including Pakistan, the one country that we need the most support from. 

About Gitmo…most of the “prisoners” there are not “terrorists” yet the government has held them without due process of justice and to top it off have held them against the UN resolution on prisons of war (Resolution #739 (VIII))!  How Christian is this action?

Another one I missed.  How does a True Christian respond to the War on Terror?  Is it appropriate to strike preemptively?

Whatever happened to “turn your other cheek” and “give your enemy the shirt off your back”?  We are certainly not a Christian nation if we cannot obey those simple Beatitudes from Jesus.  Yet for some reason, our military is not only a majority “Christian” many “Christian” attitudes pervade the entire system.  Homosexuality is not only frowned upon it is grounds for dishonorable discharge, Atheists have been harassed, and a strong fundamental conservative Christians movement is invasive to the US military.  The big question is: why are there any TrueChristians™ in the US military at all?  Does not killing other human beings violate just about everything YHWH and Jesus taught their followers?

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